Here, Esquire selects a few favorites from Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s-1950s. How many could there have been to begin with? Perhaps the only thing that kept them safe was their owners’ wish to keep them secret, tucked away and spared from the hands of disapproving relatives and the scars of time and sunlight. But Treadwell and Nini refer to them as “unlikely survivors of a world that is only just beginning to catch up with them.” And paging through their book, it does feel like a small miracle that so many of these photos are here at all. To some, these are just old snapshots, or “found photos,” left behind by their owners for reasons unknown. They carried out a campaign against male homosexuality that included shutting down gay and lesbian meeting places and arresting men under Paragraph 175, the statute of the. Now they’re releasing Loving, a book of more than 300 pictures from their collection, dating from before the Civil War to just after WWII, that, in image after image, captures connections so deep-and radiates happiness so pure-it simply overtakes you. RW 58-61940 The Nazi regime considered homosexuality a moral vice that threatened the current and future strength of the German people. And, in the 20 years since, they’ve snapped up nearly 3,000 vintage photos of men in love with men. When they stumbled across that photo, Neal Treadwell, who works in the cosmetics industry, and Hugh Nini, a teacher at the Joffrey Ballet, had been together eight years, and they recognized the look immediately. $32 at Amazon Credit: Nini-Treadwell Collection © “Loving” by 5 Continents Editions
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